Additionally, you will find some very basic video editing options that can be even more significant. These include how you resize, rotate, and flip your inserted video clips. Resizing can help you change dimensions of your video clips, while slight changes in rotation values can draw attention. Flip, the last of these options though is something you will almost never use, unless you want to do something drastically different!

Whether you want to resize, rotate, or flip, the first few steps remain the same for all these options:

Open your presentation, and navigate to the required slide where you have already
inserted a video clip. Just select or double-click the video clip
to bring up the two Video Tools tabs in the
Ribbon. These two tabs are Format and
Playback. Click the Format tab to activate it, as shown in Figure 1 (highlighted in
blue).

Figure 1: Video Tools Format tab of the Ribbon

When you insert a video on your slide, it may display a black rectangle on the slide (see Figure 1, above). If your
video clip does not show a black rectangle, then you can skip this step and go to Step 3.

If you see the black rectangle in place of the video clip, then you will have to optionally add a
Poster Frame to your video clip, as shown in
Figure 2 below.

Tip: A Poster Frame can be applied to your video clip if you see just a black rectangle on your slide,
at the time of inserting the video clip. Because, when you are choosing to resize, rotate, or
flip the video, it is good to see a
Live Preview of the actual video clip being resized, rotated, or
flipped, rather than seeing a black rectangle. Anyhow, applying a Poster Frame is entirely optional, and has no relation
to your being able to follow the rest of this tutorial.

Locate the Size group within the Video Tools Format tab. Then, enter the required
Height and Width values in digits, as shown highlighted in red within
Figure 3.

Figure 3: Height and Width values entered within the Size group

Inches or Centimeters?

Do you see the Width and Height values in centimeters rather than inches? That's
not an issue since you will either see centimeters or inches everywhere in PowerPoint. But if you want to change the unit of measurement,
you will have to do that globally in your Microsoft Windows operating system. The following tutorials will help you:

You can also enter the values in inches or centimeters directly into the boxes. If you want to type in values in inches, just type
n in and press Enter on your keyboard, where n represents the value you want to type.
Similarly, for centimeters, just type in n cm. To learn more about advanced options to resize the selected video clip,
follow the instructions within our Resizing Shapes tutorial.

To learn more about advanced options to resize the selected video, just click the small arrow dialog launcher located at the bottom right
corner of the Size group (highlighted in blue within Figure 3, above). Thereafter, follow instructions within our
Resizing Shapes tutorial to proceed further.

Rotate Video in PowerPoint 2016

You can rotate the selected video in any of the two ways mentioned below:

Click and drag the rotation handle towards right or left, as required. You can see the rotation handle highlighted in red within Figure 2, shown earlier on this page. Additionally, you can press the Shift key and drag the
rotation handle to rotate in increments of 15 degrees.

Locate the Arrange group within the Video Tools Format tab. Then click the Rotate
button to bring up the Rotate and Flip drop-down gallery that you can see in Figure 4, below. Choose any
of the two Rotate options to rotate left or right (highlighted in red within
Figure 2, shown earlier on this page.

Figure 4: Rotate options within the Rotate and Flip drop-down gallery

To learn more about advanced options to rotate selected video, just right-click the video and, choose the
Size and Position option in the resultant contextual menu. Alternatively, click More Rotations Options within the Rotate and Flip drop-down gallery that you can see highlighted in blue within
Figure 4, above. Either way, you summon the Format VideoTask Pane, within this Task Pane, select the
Size and Properties button shown highlighted in red within Figure 5.

Figure 5: Rotation option within the Format Video Task Pane

Change the Rotation option (highlighted in blue within Figure 5, above) to any value from -360o to 360o or type a zero rotation value to restore the original placement of the video clip.

Flip Video in PowerPoint 2016

As with Resize and Rotate, there are two options available to Flip the picture:

Click and drag one of the side (not corner) white selection handles of the video, as shown in Figure 6, below.

Figure 6: Drag the side handle towards the other end of the video

Continue dragging even when you reach the end of the video until you have flipped it as required, as shown in Figure 7.
Remember that if you drag the selection handle too little or too farther, you may end up squishing the video!

Figure 7: Drag beyond to the other side to flip a video

Locate the Arrange group within the Video Tools Format tab. Then click the Rotate
button to bring up the Rotate and Flip drop-down gallery as you can see in Figure 8. Choose any of the two
Flip options (highlighted in red with Figure 8, below) within this drop-down
gallery to flip your video vertically or horizontally.

Figure 8: Flip options within the Rotate and Flip drop-down gallery

In Figure 9, you can see the selected video clip in its original form as well as its variations in which the video clip has been resized, rotated and flipped.

Figure 9: Variants of the same video clip applied with resize, rotate, and flip options

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